(From MS Technet ) Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) Insights skills in this training course. This course teaches how to use SharePoint Server 2010 as your BI platform and covers the following...

Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the performance and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications. Faster Web Apps: Windows Server AppFabric improves the speed and availability of Web applications...

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are now ready for download on the Microsoft Download Center. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 includes new compatibility...

The BizTalk Server 2010 training kit (that includes labs and training videos) to help you learn about the new features of BizTalk Server 2010 can now be downloaded here . These labs are designed to be executed in a BizTalk Server 2010 development environment...

Attend this webcast and learn how SQL Server 2008 can help you visualize your data on a map using a free download called DataConnector. You’re most likely already familiar with SQL Server support for spatial data and now with DataConnector viewing this...

As amazing as the web is, its potential is immeasurably greater. Internet Explorer 9 was designed to let that potential shine through. Click below to see how developers and designers are creating a more beautiful web using HTML5 and advancements in Internet...

From Microsoft Technet Wikis As of November, 2011, RC0 is the latest release of SQL Server “Denali,” now known as SQL Server 2012. To download this release, go to http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145 . To upgrade to this version...

Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the performance and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications. Faster Web Apps Windows Server AppFabric improves the speed and availability of Web applications...

The Microsoft Web Platform, which includes the Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer, and now, WebMatrix, is designed to provide developers with what they need to build and run Web sites and applications on Windows. As Scott Guthrie, vice president...

Please read this great post (TechNet Wiki) regarding SQL Azure Federation Services that will allow you to scale-out your SQL Azure, horizontal partitioning or ‘sharding’ of data, across many nodes. You can find the full post here .

SQL Azure Extends to 50 GB With our continued commitment to deliver increasing value in data cloud services to our customers we are happy to announce that SQL Azure database is now extending from 10GB to 50GB size of database storage capacity. With 50GB...

Finally, the recent more innovative gaming console is available starting today in Greece , at any of the following combos: EUR 363 EUR 363 EUR 309 EUR 159 That’s another great innovation from Microsoft